News & Press

  • NYU School of Law

    November 30, 2023

    Mehrsa Baradaran ‘05 examines what makes law legitimate in Derrick Bell Lecture - NYU School of Law

  • Market Watch

    November 2, 2023

    Mehrsa Baradaran, author of “The Color of Money,” on why giving people civil and political right isn’t enough.

  • AP News

    April 8, 2021

    OneUnited Bank, Largest Black Owned Bank Announces Professor Mehrsa Baradaran Joins OneTransaction Conference on Juneteenth

  • Revolving Door Project

    January 22, 2021

    Potential Comptroller of the Currency - Mehrsa Baradaran’s Background

  • Politico

    January 21, 2021

    Biden poised to break with Brown, progressives in picking top bank cop

  • Market Watch

    November 2020

  • Center for American Progress

    October 15, 2020

    Creating a Postal Banking System Would Help Address Structural Inequality

  • PBS

    July 24, 2020

    The Racial Wealth Gap? It All Comes Down to Black Banks

  • NPR - WBEZ Chicago

    July 8, 2020

    Why We Need Black-Owned Banks

  • The Real News Network

    December 10, 2019

    Mehrsa Baradaran is a Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law School and author of The Color of Money and How the Other Half Banks

  • NPR

    November 2017

    Banking Law voice interview

  • Democracy Now

    October 30, 2015

    ‘How the Other Half Banks’: Author Says America’s Two-Tiered Banking System is a Threat to Democracy

  • The New York Times

    October 6, 2015

    ‘How the Other Half Banks,’ by Mehrsa Baradaran (Published 2015)